Catching up

As you have seen, I haven’t posted lately, and I am sorry about that. Life got retardedly busy in a hurry. Not that being busy is a decent excuse for anything. So let me take a moment to catch you up with the events of the month.

At work, the higher ups decided to shut down an office we had in Indiana, so all their work is now coming to my team. That is all fine and dandy, except that they had an incredible backlog that we have now inherited. I am all about accepting a challenge though, so no worries.

I have a talk to give at a conference next Saturday on effective web communication that I need to prepare sometime. I suspect one of the notes will be that they should post to their site more often than I do.

I helped some friends do some work today... and let me tell you how much I hate cast iron stoves. They are the heaviest things on God’s green earth. I’m fairly certain that my back will hate me tomorrow. It’s already not speaking to me now.

I did make a post this morning, as you probably saw. It’s one I have been meaning to make for a month or three, but never really found time to get it out. Maybe I’ll turn it into a series about things I learned growing up.

I also played with Omnigraffle this morning to create a wireframe for a side project I am doing. If you own a mac, you should own Omnigraffle. It is happy.

I also decided that being busy is no real reason not to go after what you want. If I look back over the past decade of my life, there was never a time of more than a couple of months where I was not involved in some random thing that ate up all of my time. And you know what, I will always have something eating up all of my time. That’s the nature of how I am, of how my friends are. We all have a ton of things we want done, so we are always doing something. If there is free time, we, or someone else, fills it. Now there are sometimes when you simply really and truly do not have time (Jen, this is your life as of now). But for the most part, we just need to pick one of the things on our wishlist and go do it. Push other shit to the side or whatever it is you can do. I could ramble on this one for quite awhile, but the point is simply this. Figure out what you want, and do it.

Today, I even found time to comment on an old post of mine. I am honestly not sure the proper protocol for commenting on one of your own old posts. And, to be quite honest about it, I really don’t care that much. I thought the comment needed to be put out there, so I did. And that’s that.